Gaming

I can’t think of a specific example, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it involved an escort mission.

The sister bullshit fight in fallen order.

Or, all the fights actually

Kingdom Come Deliverance is the most notable example of this. The monastery mission is absolutely brutal both by how difficult it's intended to be, and by how broke it is, on a technical level.

It's definitely interesting, but it's so difficult.

Maybe I'm an idiot, but I can't get the stupid mini game in Astral Chain where I have to balance a bunch of boxes and take them to someone without dropping them all. It adds nothing to the story afaik and it pissed me off to a point I just stopped playing altogether.

Company Heroes 2 in Hard difficulty. The AI in RTS single player games tend to simply swarm you. I have to tone down the difficulty but there is little sense of satisfaction in playing easier modes.

Helicopter level is nowhere near as bad as everyone says it is.

I remembered it as being hard from being a kid. But every time I've played it since as an adult I've been very surprised that i was able to do it either my first try for that playthrough or at the second or third at most.

The Trial of Tassadar

Every once in a while I decide to replay StarCraft. I always breeze through the Terran and Zerg campaigns and the first few Protoss levels. Homeland is a struggle but I can get through it. I can never seem to beat The Trial of Tassadar though. I always get destroyed before I can even venture out of my base.

Tutorial.

Body Harvest airplane mission.

Misty in Pokémon Blue

It'd be easily fixed with a new save, a more balanced approach, and four hours... but fuck that, I've spent two summers grinding to beat her but nope

I was stuck on the crazy missile tank dude in Armored Core 6 when I got to him because apparently he was fucked up and more OP than intended. Played through a few months ago, well after he was nerfed, and absolutely demolished the game 100%; though I credit it more to finding out that you can unlock a machine gun through the training sessions I never did. That thing just wrecks every dude in the game if you keep moving 🤣

I think it was the crab boss on the original S/NES blaster master. 3rd or 4th boss. They've since made the game a little more forgiving.

Deathstroke fight on Batman: Arkham Origins

The fucking asteroids in the original Dead Space, fuck those things. Though knowing my luck they were locked to frame rate or some shit which made it difficult on PC.

Psi Ops the Mindgate conspiracy.

Could not beat that pyro bitch

The goddamn blood trail jumping puzzles.

I got stuck halfway through both Mole Mania and Donkey Kong '94 thanks to levels where I could not figure out how to solve them. These are action puzzle games, but it's not a matter of fucking up the action. I just did not get the intended solution. Not even coming back to them a decade later.

I'm sure nowadays I could just look up a video of the whole game, but in the GameFAQs era, you had to hope XxSolidSnakexX could convey what the hap is fuckening in plain ASCII.

Every goddamn PS2 game